Necron Unit of the Week Series: Lokhust Heavy Destroyers

[NTaW]

NECRON UNIT OF THE WEEK SERIES

Welcome to the Necron Unit of the Week series for 10th edition! Each week will see a different unit from the Codex, Imperial Armour, and Legends datasheets featured for discussion. The goal here is to discover and chronicle tactics for the featured unit so that new players and veterans alike can use this database to inform their strategies with the wider knowledge of the forum. The game of Warhammer 40,000 is ever changing though, and as the rules evolve throughout the edition everyone should feel free to return to older threads with the release of new FAQs/errata, changes in points values, information gathered from games played, and of course the Codex being released. These threads are also great places for newcomers to the Necrons to post their questions about tactics related to the featured units.

Please note that the purpose of this series is not to lament what the current meta deems “ineffective”, or that another unit “does it better”. Those units will get their own threads.

 

This week’s unit is:

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers

 

How many models do you take in a unit, and do you take multiple units?

Which weapon do you prefer, and what unit types do you try and target?

Do you attach a Lokhust Lord for the bonus to Critical Hits?

Do you sit on objectives at range or advance into enemy held positions?

 

 

Series Index

[Marshal Mittens]

I like the Destructor, and to sit in the back of the battle field and do damage to tougher targets. They can reliably delete elite infantry, or do reliable vehicle damage, and as they are fairly tough, they can take a lot to remove and most armies are limited with what they can shoot back at long range with. 

 

 

The Exterminator gun looks very cool, but honestly we have so many other good options for volume of fire, and S6 AP-1 is not great against many enemies. 

 

I like to take 1 squad of 3 with destructor, and sit them out of the way in my deployment zone plink away all game. 

[NTaW]

I typically take two squads of two models each, Destructors for all. When they wound it's usually devastating to the unit they're targeting, though dice are fickle for one-shot weapons. I haven't yet played a single squad of three because I like the durability of two units. I think they usually end up shooting at targets with W12 or higher, but have absolutely deleted some W4 models when required.

 

I've considered playing them with a Lokhust Lord attached but haven't yet tried it out.